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Harold Brodkey

American Author

Born: Oct 25, 1930

Died: Jan 26, 1996

Am Death Long Me Will Young

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. Harold Brodkey

Nothing Down Thousands Know Always Opinions Still Millions

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. Harold Brodkey

Life World Contentment Entering Fearlessness Absolute Perfect Never Part Head Velocity Am Motion Sensible Moments Even Aware Alert

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey

Darkness Unknown Wild Monumental Enter Visiting Purest Oneself Only Like Most Loss Form Cannot Which Funeral

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. Harold Brodkey

You Reality Sometimes Word Poet Looking Drunk See Writer Like Read Go Just Fiction Fiction Writer Sober Interesting Illumination

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been. Harold Brodkey

Kicking Alive Has-Been Always Been Public Public Radio Radio

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. Harold Brodkey

Death Win Will Instincts

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. Harold Brodkey

Death Events Mother Revolution About Case Russian Drove Come Account Autobiography Should Flights European Include Here Jewish

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. Harold Brodkey

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. Harold Brodkey

Change Past Think Would Give Had Written Clear Like Understood Up Expect Disease Order Stories Novels Two

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